The eyes of many football fans may be temporarily distracted by the Ryder Cup this weekend, as golf’s biggest event takes centre stage from the Celtic Manor, but for Chelsea Football Club, all involved must ensure they are fully focused on this Sunday’s crucial match at Stamford Bridge. Despite their slip up at home to [...]
On 3 October 2009, Josh McEachran was playing in a 4-3 win against Fulham for the Chelsea youth team. Who would have guessed that one year on he could be in contention for playing a role for Chelsea’s first team against Arsenal, at Stamford Bridge? What’s most remarkable about the Josh McEachran story (so far!) [...]
Continue reading …Meeting held at the Lord Attenborough Suite, Chelsea FC Hotel, 11.30am, Sunday 19th September 2010. (Action points are underlined.) INTRODUCTION The Chairman welcomed members to the first Forum of the season and in particular new members. Members introduced themselves. The Chairman said that, further to the discussion in the Forum last season, the Club photographer [...]
Continue reading …If Carlo Ancelotti was looking for a response from his Chelsea side, he certainly got one Tuesday night, as the reigning champions of England soundly defeated Olympique Marseille 2-0 at Stamford Bridge. John Terry converted the first goal from a corner for Chelsea and Nicolas Anelka continued to add to his goal tally by scoring [...]
Continue reading …Tuesday 21 September Kakuta, Bruma, van Aanholt and Sturridge will start tomorrow night as Ancelotti announced that he wants to continue this season’s emphasis on opportunities for the young players. It would, perhaps, be a step too far to put the reserves in against Newcastle United but it would be interesting. Wednesday 22 September Chelsea [...]
Continue reading …The champions of England and France meet at Stamford Bridge tomorrow in matchday 2 of the Champions League. Didier Deschamps brings his Marseille side to the ground where he plied his trade during the 1999/2000 season, most notable from a Chelsea perspective for a memorable first campaign in the Champions League, a campaign of which [...]
Continue reading …The defeat in the Carling Cup I could take with a shrug, for me the positives of the performance far outweighed getting knocked out so early in the competition. The young players acquitted themselves well, the team showed terrific character to fight back and wrestle control of the game with a man less.
Continue reading …Eastlands hosted our first league defeat of the season, which ended our 100% start. The lunchtime Kick Off was settled in the second half, with the goal coming from City captain Carlos Tevez on the hour mark.
Continue reading …No, no, no, no, no. Far be it from me to tell Carlo “Champions League Maestro” Ancelotti how to do his job, but you know, in the same way as there’s always some toothless old geezer in the background of a disaster movie, sitting in a beaten-up shack, warning ‘I wouldn’t do that if I [...]
Continue reading …John Obi Mikel spoke to the press at Cobham today ahead of Chelsea FC’s UEFA Champions League encounter with Olympique de Marseille. Having featured at the weekend in the Blues only league defeat of the season so far, a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester City, the Nigerian midfielder faced some difficult questions on [...]
Continue reading …Carlo Ancelotti was in bullish mood this morning ahead of his Chelsea sides visit to face Manchester City tomorrow lunch time. Despite revealing that Frank Lampard would not be risked in this clash, as the midfielder was in his own words, not “100% ready”, Ancelotti chose to name the full starting XI that would take [...]
Continue reading …If the media is to be believed, Saturday afternoon is where our season begins. They discount our previous five games – and five wins – due to the supposed weak nature of our opposition, refuse to accept that we are top of the Premier League because we are the best team in the Premier League, [...]
Continue reading …In a thrilling Carling Cup third round encounter, Newcastle United sent Chelsea out of the competition with a 4-3 victory at Stamford Bridge. The star of the show for the Geordies was Shola Amoebi who netted twice in the second half, while Nicolas Anelka led the Londoners with two goals of his own. Patrick van [...]
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